J. Press Blog: Threading the Needle by Richard Press

Stealing the Harvard Drum

The Co-Vid Pandemic has cast aside the 2020 Ivy League football season fostering my own selfish memory of a fraternity football season shenanigan n...

In Love With A Shaggy Dog

Just opened a UPS package from J. Press containing my brand-new Ivory Shaggy Dog sweater - exactly the same old dog heyday Squeeze brochures used t...

Fighting Fiercely At Harvard

Memories of our late and lamented Cambridge store are ever present in my mind. I recently discovered the sidebar picture of the Cambridge staff in ...

Suiting Up Eli Frosh

Suiting up Eli frosh in the Heyday of Ivy was do-or-die for New Haven clothiers. Salesmen at J. Press were instructed by my dad, Paul Press (front...

Back to New York

Borrowing this column from my introduction to the J. PRESS 2020 Fall & Winter Brochure. Get thee to this brochure fast, hot off the press. It’s...

The Golden Rules of Irving Press

Back in 1959 when I entered the family business at the J. Press New York store, Uncle Irving Press took me to lunch at the Yale Club, a custom he f...

Cary Grant's Shaggy Dogs

“Mr. Press, a phone call for you from Cary Grant,” came over the store speaker. I figured it was a joke and was about to answer in a faux Cary Gran...

Jacobi Press and His Episcopal Clergy Pals

The saga of J. Press began in the Pale of Settlement, the Russian territory in central Europe decreed by the Tsar a residential territory and bound...

Ivy Lit 101

Religiously observing lockdown since middle March, I have disentangled the Ivy League shelf in my bookcase. Here’s the caravan that alleviated pand...